1. A further AUD $100K to support the partnership between local universities and private land-managers in the Tasmanian Land Conservancy. This money will support curriculum development to build capacity in protected area management in Australia, and across our region through agreements with our universities in the Asia-Pacific region.
2. A further AUD $1.2 million for the Bush Blitz Species Discovery program, a public-private partnership between the Australian Government, the mining company BHP Billiton and Earthwatch Australia. This program has already uncovered more than 825 new species.

1. The protection of an additional 5000ha of precious wetlands including the creation the Everlasting Swamp National Park.
2. Helping reduces litter, improve bushfire safety and benefit individual and public health and well-being by banning smoking in all State national parks and reserves.
3. Re-wilding locally extinct native animals into NSW National Parks through public-private partnerships.

1. Put a legislative ban on capital dredge disposal in the Great Barrier Reef marine park through regulation in conjunction with the Government of Queensland;
2. Provide $700,000 from the Reef Trust to clean up marine debris across the Great Barrier Reef, protecting the iconic marine species and helping to conserve the reef’s Outstanding Universal Value.
3. Further support for the regional partnership: Coral Triangle Initiative, through a further AUD $6M to support the 120 million people in our region who rely on rich and diverse marine life for their livelihoods, building on the great partnership between 6 countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, PNG, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste, and on the $7.2 million that Australia has provided to the CTI since 2009;
4. Take a leadership role in working to support a decision by the United Nations General Assembly to commence negotiations on an international instrument to address gaps in sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity on the high seas.

1. Work with countries in our region to develop an Asia-Pacific Rainforest Recovery Plan to help meet the global goal of slowing, halting and reversing forest loss by 2030. This was launched at the inaugural Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit last week.
2. A further $6M for RAFT, a regional programme to reduce deforestation and combat illegal logging in Asia, including through support of world-leading research by the University of Adelaide to build up a DNA-database of illegally logged timber.
3. Support for the international effort to fight wildlife crime, and to support the development of a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly on poaching and illegal wildlife trafficking. Australia and other nations have said that they will work with their home governments to fulfil their commitment to tackling the illegal wildlife trade.
4. The commitment of an extra AUS $2 million to boost the recovery of threatened species in Australia’s national park estate. The funding will mean ten innovative projects targeting key species, habitat and threats across the Parks Australia network now have the go-ahead. It will include $750,000 to support four Kakadu projects as part of the Kakadu threatened species strategy. Australia will share its experience of appointing a dedicated Threatened Species Commissioner with other nations seeking to strengthen protection for threatened species.

1. Bringing under biodiversity protection from 1.5% to 5% (equivalent to 175,000 km2) of the Brazilian marine territory as protected areas;
2. Bringing under enhanced biodiversity protection at least 9,300 km2 of marine and coastal areas (with regulated sustainable use practices); and
3. Identifying, designing, and preparing for implementation at least two financial mechanisms able to contribute to the long-term sustainability of MCPAs.

The result would be: Expansion of protected area coverage of Brazilian coast, territorial sea and Economic Exclusive Zone to 5%;
Safeguarding sensitive and unique habitats of the South American Atlantic coast; Development and deployment of a system-wide biodiversity monitoring system for all Marine Protected Areas;
Incorporating PA management with natural resource extraction agents (especially oil and gas) and the Brazilian Navy – sharing responsibilities and scaling up the conservation results of this potential partnership; Revisiting and updating the biodiversity priority conservation areas map for coastal and marine ecosystems;
Improving fisheries and other natural resource extraction regulations on coastal and marine ecosystems.

1. Take concrete action in three priority areas under the Government of Canada’s National Conservation Plan to conserve Canada’s lands and waters, restore ecological integrity and connect Canadians with nature;
2. Complete, by 2015, its work to protect wilderness lands in Nááts’ihch’oh, Bathurst Island and the Mealy Mountains through the establishment of three new national parks.
3. Advancing a conservation and restoration program that is the largest, most diverse and progressive in the Agency’s history, investing close to $84 million over the next five years to undertake key restoration activities that contribute to the ecological integrity of national parks and the recovery of species at risk.
4. Supporting Aboriginal people in connecting to their traditionally used lands, in order to strengthen traditional knowledge and the cooperation in the management of Canada's heritage places, such as through the Open Doors Program.
5. Fostering an appreciation for nature and building a community of stewards among Canadians of all ages, through initiatives such as the My Parks Pass program, which gives students free entry to Parks Canada places for one full year when they visit with their class or family, through their Learn to Camp Program, and through the establishment of Rouge National Urban Park, the first of its kind in Canada.

Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial parks ministers have further committed to work together to creatively and collaboratively inspire Canadians to experience nature through parks in ways that support their health and well-being.

1. Increase its protected areas territory to at least 20% by 2020, and to match Chinese categories of protected areas to global standards.
2. Increase its forest area to 40 million hectares by 2020, increasing the standing volume by 1.2 billion cubic hectares.

1. Place biodiversity conservation in general and protected areas in particular as the cornerstone of the national strategy to address climate change and maintain ecosystem resilience.
2. In the next 10 years, to reach 22% of protection of terrestrial ecosystems and 7% of all marine and coastal ecosystems. In the next 5 years, seven new PAs will be declared, including the nomination of Volcan of Karthala to be included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List and the establishment of the Island of Mohéli as a Biosphere Reserve in the context of the MAP Programme.
3. Establish a National Trust Fund for Protected Areas to contribute to the financial sustainability of protected area management.

1. Strengthen at the national level, the normative framework for the protection of natural areas;
2. Continue the growth of France's protected areas network, beyond the Aichi Target, in both coverage and level of protection;
3. Achieve at the national level, double the Aichi Target for marine protected areas, to result in 20% of national seas under protection by 2020.

1. The creation of a network of new Marine Protected Areas equivalent to 23% of its territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The 46,000 km2) area includes a range of ecosystems and bars commercial fishing.
2. To develop and support an African Association of Heads of Park Agencies.

1. Working with the IUCN Asia Regional Office to enhance collaboration among Asian countries on protected areas management through the Asia Protected Area Partnership (APAP), which was officially established during the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 based on the broad and fruitful discussion in the 1st Asia Parks Congress (APC) held in Sendai, Japan in 2013 and the Asia Protected Areas Charter, which is referred to as the Sendai Charter, adopted in the APC. This commitment will result in Enhanced PA management in Asian countries through information sharing and capacity building among countries; achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets related to PA management (Target 11 and others); and promotion of ecosystem-based approaches involving protected areas for disaster risk reduction.
2. Provide guidelines to protected area managers on disaster risk reduction.

1. Finalise the expansion of tripling of the protected areas system which is almost complete, and to included protected areas at the heart of the country’s Sustainable Development Strategy as tools for economic growth, political stability and the promotion of equity. In this context, by 20 May 2015 all of the new PAs proposed through different studies, totalling 7 million ha, will be officially declared and a new Foundation for Protected Areas will enhance their management including their financial sustainability.
2. Triple the number of marine protected areas in the next 5-10 years.
3. A zero tolerance policy on illegal wildlife trafficking and to stop the illegal traffic of wildlife products from the country to contribute significantly to ending wildlife crime worldwide.

1. In the coming decade, to expand its protected area network by establishing at least 27 federal protected areas and expanding 12 others, increasing the total area of federally protected areas by 22% (or 13 million hectares). Critical habitats for important threatened species, including the Amur tiger in the Bikin River watershed (the southern Russian Far East), the polar bear in the Novosibirsk Archipelago, the Siberian crane in Yakutia, and the beluga in the White Sea near the Solovetsky Archipelago, among others, will be granted protection.
2. Expanding the territory of marine protected areas to protect a total of 17 million hectares in the next decade.
3. To extend the protection of threatened species, including Persian leopard in the Western Caucasus and to double the population of the Amur leopard.

1. More than triple its ocean protection over the next ten years, from less than 0.5% to 5% of our Exclusive Economic Zone within Marine Protected Areas, to ensure environmental sustainability as MPAs deliver ecosystem services which underpin South African livelihoods, food security and ecotourism.
2. Use South Africa's unique geographical position to encourage the African region to create a network of marine protected areas to increase ecosystem resilience, maintain genetic biodiversity and the ability to cope with climate change.

1. Promote the integration of Andalusian parks into the IUCN Green List for Protected Areas, officially launched at the Sydney World Park Congress, beginning with the Sierra de las Nieves, and taking advantage of the process this area is currently undergoing to become a new National Park.
2. Work towards the development of a legal framework that will allow for the inclusion of land stewardship processes in the management of Andalusian Protected Areas, this will mean enhanced participation of local population in the management and governance of protected areas

• Stronger whole of ocean management including effectively managed protected area networks which protect areas of critical importance for both biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• Better management decisions and increased investments in coastal and marine habitat protection and restoration to achieve conservation and development outcomes.
• Recognition that effective protection and restoration of marine and coastal habitats provide cost effective solutions critical to address development and climate change challenges.

• Increase the restriction of commercial fisheries in Palau's entire 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone;
• Increase the expansion of the “no take” zone Phoenix Island Protected Area (PIPA) to an area of 408,250 square kilometres;
• Increase the Cook Islands Marine Park to cover it entire EEZ;
• Establishing inshore and Offshore LMMAs and MPAs in Fiji as per the Small Islands Developing States commitments to achieving it's 30% Target in the next six years by 2020;
• Realise the “Polynesia Promise as was proposed by PM Cook Islands as an initiative to be presented to the Polynesian Pacific Leaders to build synergies around marine protected areas in Polynesia extending from Aotearoa New Zealand to Hawaii. This has potential to be the most significant partnership on protected areas to date and will build on recent initiatives around conservation;
• Strengthen bilateral accord between the USA and the Republic of Kiribati on surveillance of boundaries of the protected areas;
• Increased profile and understanding of nature conservation and protected areas among a defined constituency of young leaders (conservation outcome);
• Increase the profile for the appreciation of the wisdom of our ancestors, indigenous knowledge that is always useful to start within conservation efforts in the Pacific and also in the world;
• Strengthen the linkages in sustainable development through Blue-Green Economy framework highlighting the importance of Reef to Ridge Management;